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Development
Annual Report Carolina
Fiscal Year 2012
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Carolina Development Annual Report:
Fiscal Year 2012 was produced
by the UNC Office of University
Development, PO Box 309,
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-0309.
Comments or questions:
development@unc.edu
919.962.0027.
All photography by Dan Sears unless
otherwise noted. Design by UNC Creative.
table of contents
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2 Board of Trustees
3 Chancellor’s Message
4 Highlights
6 Financials
Profiles in Giving
12 Don and Jennifer Holzworth
Dedicated difference makers
18 Jonathan and Veronica Flaspoehler
Staying connected
20 Yvonne Lewis Holley
Sharing a family’s heritage
22 John T. Moore
Making it real
26 Bill and Dana Starling
Trusting in the future
Impact of Giving
14 New dental school facility just latest mark of Maurice Koury’s generosity
16 Saying ‘yes,’ permanently
24 Simply a confidence issue
Snapshot
28 ‘A Toast to Woody’
The following is a list of UNC Board of Trustees
members who served during fiscal year 2012.
Wade Hampton Hargrove (Chair)
Barbara Rosser Hyde (Vice Chair)
W. Lowry Caudill
Phillip L. Clay
Mary Cooper (Student Body President)
Donald Williams Curtis
Alston Gardner
Peter T. Grauer
H. Kel Landis III
Steven Lerner
Sallie Shuping-Russell
Eddie Smith
John L. Townsend III
Felicia A. Washington
BO A RD OF TRUSTEES 2
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“As the nation’s
first public
university, we have
a responsibility
and an opportunity
to imagine and
implement creative
ways to ensure
that our mission
continues to meet
society’s needs.”
chancellor’s message
Dear Carolina Supporters,
Your commitment to Carolina is so important to us.
We have faced challenges this past year, but in many ways,
our university has never been stronger. We have engaged
students and faculty who want to change the world for the
better, and who are acting on their aspirations. We have
researchers who are working to discover cures for diseases,
and clinicians who are already treating patients with the
most advanced care available. We have scholars who are
developing new bodies of knowledge and bringing fresh
insights to the old.
The signs of our strength are everywhere. Student
applications are up by 24 percent. We’ve climbed into the
top 10 in research funding. We’ve successfully steered the
campus through state budget cuts, protecting the classroom
experience and making our operations more efficient.
And we have you.
Despite continued economic doldrums, you gave Carolina
$287.4 million in gifts in fiscal year 2012. That marked
our second-best year ever. We also received $331.4 million
in commitments. Both topped the prior year’s totals of
$277 million and $305.6 million, respectively.
We’ve achieved all of these things because of your support.
Much more important, our students, faculty and programs
have benefitted from your generosity.
UNC and public universities across the country face
questions and challenges in the next few years. As the
nation’s first public university, we have a responsibility and
an opportunity to imagine and implement creative ways to
ensure that our mission continues to meet society’s needs.
It’s a big challenge, but we’re going to be the model for
getting it right.
Meantime, thanks in large part to your support, we’ll
continue to move forward doing what we’ve always done:
provide students a great education and contribute to the
health and welfare of the world.
Thank you, and Hark the Sound.
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Holden Thorp
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n A $2.5 million gift from Fred Eshelman will expand the
Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s research programs and help
transform the classroom experience for pharmacy students. The
gift brings Eshelman’s total support for the school to more than
$35 million. Eshelman is the founder of Pharmaceutical Product
Development Inc. and a 1972 graduate of the pharmacy school.
The school was named for Eshelman in 2008.
n A $1 million commitment from alumnus Nelson Schwab
III, successful business executive and former chair of UNC’s
Board of Trustees, endowed the Nelson Schwab “Say Yes” Fund
in the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and will initially
provide $50,000 a year to benefit faculty in fine arts, humanities
and humanistic social sciences departments within the College
of Arts and Sciences. The funds will support teaching and
scholarly activities, build morale, enable strategic planning or
realize other goals or initiatives envisioned by department
chairs. (See story on page 29.)
n An $850,000, three-year grant from The Duke Endowment
will allow the UNC Center for Excellence in Community
Mental Health in the School of Medicine to integrate primary
care into its mental health-care programs for persons in Orange,
Person and Chatham counties, creating a “health home” for
those patients. A health and wellness-programming component
will support health lifestyle change and prevent chronic disease.
n A $1.39 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation will expand digital humanities in a transformative
way at UNC, including the hiring of new faculty and the
support of graduate students in this emerging field. The grant
will help UNC create the Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative,
a $5 million effort that will explore the application of cutting-edge
digital technologies to humanities research, teaching,
graduate training and public engagement. Digital humanities is
an area of research, teaching and knowledge creation at the
intersection of computing and humanities. It is interdisciplinary
Highlights from the year—
highlights
• Carolina’s fund-raising efforts brought in $287.4 million in private gifts, marking the
second-highest year in history for this type of support, which is immediately available to
the University.
• In commitments, Carolina secured $331.4 million from more than 78,000 donors.
Commitments include pledges as well as gifts.
• Both totals were up from the previous fiscal year. Gifts rose 4 percent, from $277 million,
and commitments increased 8 percent, from $305.6 million.
• Commitments in fiscal year 2012 helped the University create nine endowed professorships,
as well as a total of 95 undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships.
development Fiscal year 2012: July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012
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and embraces a variety of topics, ranging from curating online
collections to mining information from large data sets.
n Two contributions totaling $2.7 million from the Kathrine
R. Everett Charitable Trust will support the School of Law.
The first gift of $2.4 million will create an endowment to fund at
least six full-tuition Everett Chancellors’ Scholarships for highly
promising law students from North Carolina. A second
complementary gift of $300,000 will endow the Everett
Enrichment Fund, which will provide program support of all
students awarded Chancellors’ Scholarships at the law school.
n A $666,000 gift from Don and Jennifer Holzworth created
the Don and Jennifer Holzworth Distinguished Professorship
Fund in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. The
professorship supports a professor who is a global leader in
research and policies for improving the world’s access to clean
water and sanitation. Don Holzworth founded Constella Group
and Expression Analysis Inc. Jennifer Holzworth was Constella’s
chief financial officer during its start-up phase and has focused
on volunteer work, most recently with emergency and other
medical services in Vail, Colo. (See story on page 16.)
n A $270,000 grant from the Japan Foundation in Tokyo
enabled UNC, N.C. State University and Duke University to
launch a Triangle Center for Japanese Studies that will support
fellowships, research, seminars, travel, guest speakers and
library development. The center will serve as an umbrella over
the activities related to Japan that are already happening at the
three schools, and call attention to the strength and depth of
those activities collectively. Faculty collaborating in the center
are from fields including history, anthropology and art history,
as well as Asian studies, language and literature.
n A three-year, $900,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation will enable the Carolina Global Breastfeeding
Institute in the Gillings School of Global Public Health to
translate action-oriented research and program theory into
practice and develop an environment in which more women
can decide to breastfeed and achieve their breastfeeding goals.
The institute, based in the public health school’s Department of
Maternal and Child Health, carries out innovative efforts to
improve breastfeeding support for underserved populations in
North Carolina and beyond.
n The Jarrahi Family Library Fund for Persian Studies will
provide sustained library support for one of the most rapidly
growing programs at the University. Established with a $25,000
contribution from Dr. Ali Jarrahi of Winston-Salem, N.C., the
fund will be the cornerstone of an endowment to pay for the
purchase of books, journals, films and language-learning
resources to enrich Middle East and African Studies. Jarrahi is
an Iranian-born psychiatrist who completed his training at
UNC in 1967 and earned a master of public health degree from
the University in 1969.
n A gift of more than $1 million from Jay and Babette
Tanenbaum established a new distinguished professorship in
Jewish studies, providing an endowment that will support a
tenure track faculty member who specializes in Jewish
history and culture. The professorship is based in the
Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, an interdisciplinary
academic program in the College of Arts and Sciences that
promotes a deeper understanding of Jewish history, culture
and thought through its teaching, research and community
outreach initiatives. Jay Tanenbaum, founder and president
of Primus Capital LLC, a structured finance and investment
company based in Atlanta, Ga., is former chair and current
executive committee member of The Goldring/Woldenberg
Institute of Southern Jewish Life.
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financials
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: $142.5
: $81.4
: $12.3
: $33.3
: $4.6
: $15.2
FY 2012 gifts by purpose*
: $86.8
: $144.5
: $32.6
: $25.4
*Rounded to nearest $100,000
Gifts by area for FY 2012* : $86.8
: $144.5
: $32.6
: $25.4
: $142.5
: $81.4
: $12.3
: $33.3
: $4.6
: $15.2
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*Rounded to nearest $100,000
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University-wide gift totals,
FY 2003 – FY 2012
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
9 : 3,585 (23.7% )
/ : 90 (.6%)
: 7,946 (52.4%)
: 50,101 (63.5%
)
/
: 1,082 (1.4%)
: 19,052 (24.2%)
: 1,586 (2%)
: 607 (.8%)
: 711 (.9%)
: 1,768 (2.2%)
: 3,963 (5%)
*Percentages rounded to nearest 10th
Donors in FY 2012*
*Percentages rounded to nearest 10th
: 50,101 (63.5%
)
/
: 1,082 (1.4%)
: 19,052 (24.2%)
: 1,586 (2%)
: 607 (.8%)
: 711 (.9%)
: 1,768 (2.2%)
: 3,963 (5%)
: 3,585 (23.7%
)
/
: 90 (.6%)
: 7,946 (52.4%)
: 671 (4.4%)
: 113 (.8%)
: 303 (2%)
: 1,447 (9.5%)
: 1,002 (6.6%)
New donors in FY 2012*
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Endowed
professorships
Scholarships/
fellowships
Distribution of professorships created by FY 2012 gifts
62
1,477
33
9
749
482
62 scholarship funds created in FY 2012
1,477 scholarship funds total (as of June 30, 2012)
33 fellowship funds created in FY 2012
9 professorships created in FY 2012
482 professorships total (as of June 30, 2012)
749 fellowship funds total (as of June 30, 2012)
4 College of Arts and Sciences
2 School of Medicine
1 Eshelman School of Pharmacy
1 Gillings School of Global Public Health
1 School of Education
In fiscal year 2012, the State of North Carolina Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund
provided a total of $1.3 million in matching funds to boost the value of Carolina donors’
contributions. The state fund, established in 1985 by the N.C. General Assembly, helps UNC
system schools recruit and retain outstanding faculty.
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,
: 9.4%
: 26.8%
: 31.6%
: 12.6%
: 19.2%
: 0.4%
Total FY 2012
gifts: endowment,
expendable and
capital*
:
$52.6
:
$232.8
: $3.9
*Unaudited; percentages rounded to nearest 10th
*Rounded to nearest $100,000
Carolina’s sources of
revenue for FY 2012*
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Often, the most significant rewards stem from doing
something simply because it is the right thing to do.
For Don and Jennifer Holzworth, that is precisely
why they support Carolina and its Gillings School of
Global Public Health so fervently. Though they don’t
have specific ties to the University as alumni (son David
is a Class of 2010 graduate), they are deeply committed
to advancing its work to tackle some of the world’s most
pressing problems.
“We were first introduced to the University’s work
when Bill Roper, dean of the School of Public Health
at the time, invited me to join the Dean’s Advisory
Council,” Don said. “Since my business focused on
global health consulting, I welcomed the opportunity to
Don and Jennifer
Holzworth
Dedica ted diference makers
By Hope Baptiste
Don and Jennifer Holzworth
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health/Linda Kastleman
profile in giving
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support emerging technologies, scholarship, research,
policy development and grass-roots efforts in improving
the health and welfare of people around the globe.”
They’ve been involved—and invested—ever since.
The couple established a popular and innovative online
executive doctoral program in health leadership,
created the Arthur B. Holzworth Scholarship in Health
Leadership, the Charles A. Veatch Scholarship in
Health Leadership and the Don and Jennifer Holzworth
Merit Scholarship in Public Health. They also support
the Triangle Global Health Case Competition.
The Holzworths’ latest gift to UNC’s public health
school centers around the University’s academic
theme, “Water In Our World,” and aims to support a
global leader in research and policies for improving
the world’s access to clean water and sanitation. Their
commitment of $666,000, combined with matching
funds from the North Carolina Distinguished
Professors Endowment Trust Fund, is creating the $1
million Don and Jennifer Holzworth Distinguished
Professorship Fund. James “Jamie” Kniveton Bartram,
professor of environmental sciences and engineering
and director of UNC’s Water Institute, was named the
inaugural Holzworth Distinguished Professor in April
2012. The institute is based in the public health school.
“We are delighted to be in a position to support the
University’s work, particularly in the area of global water
and sanitation,” Don said. “Through the Water Institute
at UNC and other exciting initiatives, we have the oppor-tunity
to make a meaningful difference in the world by
leading efforts that leverage ideas coming from universi-ties,
governments and the private sector.”
Don, who serves as the school’s first Gillings
Executive-in-Residence, is chair of the School of Public
Health Advisory Council and an adjunct professor
of health policy and management. He is a member
of the Chancellor’s Innovation Circle and has been
instrumental in helping to lead innovation at the school
and in launching the Water Institute.
Global public health, particularly accessible clean
water and sanitation, has been a priority for the
Holzworths throughout their lives both professionally
and personally. Contributing significantly to work
already under way at the school engaged their expertise
and their passion to make the world a better place for
all its citizens.
“Getting to know people here as the executive-in-residence
and experiencing firsthand this amazing
collection of talented faculty gives you every reason
to believe that what was once impossible is now very
possible,” Don said. “The goal is to have a global
impact and, in turn, position the University as a
worldwide leader in developing strategies, policies,
best practices and scholarship across the spectrum of
public health issues. Jennifer and I are honored to be
a part of that.”
The Holzworths also support UNC athletics, and Don
serves on the Executive Committee of the Educational
Foundation.
In 1983, Don founded Constella Group, a human
health services company that employed innovative
science, technology and management solutions to solve
pressing health problems in more than 60 countries.
In 2001, he founded Expression Analysis Inc., a
genomic services company that unravels the genetic
basis of disease. He served on the President’s Advisory
Council for HIV/AIDS under the Bush administration.
He is a member of the Executive Committee and
Board of Directors for the Accordia Global Health
Foundation, which builds centers of excellence in
Sub-Saharan Africa focused on reducing the burden of
infectious diseases.
Jennifer was Constella’s chief financial officer during
its start-up phase and has focused on volunteer work,
most recently with emergency and other medical
services in Vail, Colo. n
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The UNC School of Dentistry opened the doors to
a new education and research facility and honored a
generous alumnus and friend, Burlington businessman
Maurice J. Koury, in April 2012.
The Koury Oral Health Sciences Building, which
adds 216,500 square feet of space, adjoins the school’s
existing structures—Tarrson Hall, Brauer Hall and
Old Dental Building—at the corner of Manning Drive
and South Columbia Street.
“This is an exciting time for the UNC School of
Dentistry,” said Dean Jane A. Weintraub. “The Koury
Oral Health Sciences Building will allow us to contin-ue
being a leader in dental education and research for
many years to come. We’re grateful beyond words for
the investment the General Assembly, our University
and our private donors, especially Mr. Koury, made in
our school to make this facility a reality.”
The Koury Oral Health Sciences Building provides
improved technology for teaching and collaborative
research across UNC and other campuses, larger
lecture rooms and meeting spaces for inter-class
collaboration, and an expanded 105-seat patient
simulation laboratory.
“This is a space designed to foster the exchange
of ideas and personal interactions,” said Silvana P.
Barros, a research associate professor in the dental
school’s Department of Periodontology who is
working in the new facility. “The state-of-the-art
labs are open with well-placed common areas. We
envision that our facility will attract new collaborators
and expand our cutting-edge research. For rising and
Dr. Silvana P. Barros at work in the
Koury Oral Health Sciences Building
impact of giving
new den tal school facility ju st lates t
mark of mauric e kour y ’s generosity
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From left, Chancellor Holden
Thorp, School of Dentistry
Dean Jane Weintraub, Board of
Trustees Chair Wade Hargrove
Jr., Ann Koury and Maurice
Koury cut the ribbon at the
dedication of the Koury Oral
Health Sciences Building.
“ This is an exciting time for the UNC School of
Dentistry. The Koury Oral Health Sciences Building
will allow us to continue being a leader in dental
education and research for many years to come.”
—Dean Jane A. Weintraub
established star researchers, this is the place to be.”
Koury is president of Carolina Hosiery Mills Inc. and
over the years his business interests have also expanded
to the development of hotels and commercial properties.
The Koury Oral Health Sciences Building is the latest
example of Koury’s generosity and impact across the
Carolina campus. Others include the Kenan-Flagler
Business School’s Koury Auditorium; Koury Residence
Hall; the Koury Library in the George Watts Hill Alumni
Center; and the Koury Natatorium.
Koury, who enrolled at UNC as an undergraduate
in 1945, began his relationship with the School of
Dentistry nearly 30 years ago as a patient and through
patient referrals he made to the school.
Koury’s undergraduate years at Carolina were the
beginning of a lifelong commitment to public higher
education and Carolina in particular. Koury served
two terms on the University’s Board of Trustees,
and he chaired the student affairs and development
committees. He also served two terms as president of the
Educational Foundation Inc. and was the longtime chair
of the foundation’s endowment trust. The Burlington
native played a major role in securing funding for the
Dean E. Smith Center and made a generous leadership
gift to the George Watts Hill Alumni Center. His
contributions to the College of Arts and Sciences include
the establishment of the Edna J. Koury Distinguished
Professorship, which honors his mother.
Koury’s University honors include the William
Richardson Davie Award, the highest recognition given
by the trustees, an honorary degree and the General
Alumni Association’s Distinguished Service Medal. n
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When Nelson Schwab III committed $1 million in 2011 to endow
the “Say Yes” Fund in the Institute for the Arts and Humanities
(IAH), it was the second part of a two-part process. The first part
came years earlier, when Schwab was the largest donor in a pool
that funded a pilot project. The success of that pilot let Schwab and
the fund’s administrators know that it would work ongoing.
In 2005, Schwab gave an expendable gift of $100,000, and other
donors added to it, making about $150,000 available, said John
McGowan, director of the IAH. Fifteen departments in the fine
arts, humanities and humanistic social sciences within the College
of Arts and Sciences each received $10,000 to spend during 2006
to 2009. The money was given to the department chairs, who
distributed it at their discretion.
The response varied widely, McGowan said. “Some departments
used it for team-building exercises, such as starting a strategic plan
or holding a department retreat. Others spent it on basic equipment
needs, such as software. And some used it to hire research
assistants,” he said.
It was a huge success. “The chairs were so enthusiastic,” he said.
“Our next thought was how to endow it.”
At any campus, but especially during the current difficult budget
times, instructional needs take up all the money, McGowan said.
This means department chairs have a really tough job. “They have
to say no a lot. A faculty member comes to them and asks for
something, and the money just isn’t there, so they have to say no.”
But this program finally allowed them to say yes. “That’s where
the name came from,” McGowan said.
From the department chair’s perspective, being able to say “yes”
is a huge thing, said McKay Coble, chair of the Department of
Dramatic Art.
“What happens when you’re able to say ‘yes,’ you’re able to create
an atmosphere of hope,” Coble said. “It’s just small things, but they
build up and change the atmosphere. Because we were able to say
yes to somebody, we surprised people.”
With Schwab’s $1 million endowment gift, “yes” will become a
permanent refrain.
The Nelson Schwab “Say Yes” Fund in the IAH will provide
up to $50,000 a year to continue benefiting faculty in fine arts,
humanities and humanistic social sciences departments.
“In my long association with the IAH, I have come to understand
the critical role department chairs play in retaining good faculty
impact of giving
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By Claire Cusick
Nelson Schwab III
saying ‘yes,’ pe rmanently
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McKay Coble, chair of the
Department of Dramatic Art, can
now say “yes” more often.
and maintaining the overall quality of the University,” Schwab said.
“In these difficult financial times their resources have been stretched very
thin. The ‘Say Yes’ Fund has proved that with some strategically placed funds,
even in smaller amounts, good things can happen. So I am delighted to help
endow this effort so that department chairs will have access to discretionary
funds that can be used for academic excellence.”
Departmental chairs submitted proposals for funds to support teaching and
scholarly activities, build morale, enable strategic planning or realize other
goals or initiatives envisioned by chairs to improve their departments.
And the funded projects show that some of those gaps will be filled. The
Department of Art will be able to buy high-definition video-recorders;
the Department of Dramatic Art will purchase a lighting board and other
equipment for Kenan Theater. Both the Department of Classics and the
Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures will use their
grants to hold a lecture series; the departments of communications studies
and history will each hold a departmental colloquium. The Department of
Music’s windfall will allow its wind ensemble to travel, and the Department of
Linguistics will be able to pay consultants for a fieldwork course.
Schwab ’67, a member of the IAH Advisory Board, is a managing partner
and co-founder of merchant banking firm Carousel Capital in Charlotte, N.C.,
and has given generously in time and service to UNC over the years. He served
on the boards of visitors both for the University and UNC’s Kenan-Flagler
Business School. A member of the Board of Trustees from 2001 to 2009, he
led the board as chair from 2005 to 2007. Schwab also was a member of the
Carolina First Campaign Steering Committee. n
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“What happens
when you’re
able to say ‘yes,’
you’re able to
create an
atmosphere
of hope.”
—McKay Coble
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Veronica and Jonathan Flaspoehler,
currently of Raeford, N.C., just
outside of Fort Bragg, are like most
20-something couples—they’re busy
building their careers and lives both
individually and jointly.
They’re also building their legacy
at Carolina and helping ensure the
future of the University’s excellence
over time with their annual support.
Just four years post-graduation, the
couple has committed to a lifetime
of support to their alma mater.
“We had always planned on giv-ing
back to the University because
we believe strongly that education
changes lives and communities,”
Veronica said. “By themselves, our
gifts are modest, but knowing that
they are combined with many others
makes the impact tremendous, and
that’s really powerful for us.”
More so, they say, given that
each came to UNC with the help of
scholarships. Jonathan chose UNC
over his home state’s flagship, the
University of Kentucky, because he
wanted to take advantage of UNC’s
prestigious Army ROTC program,
which he said far exceeded oth-
Veronica and Jonathan Flaspoehler
profile in giving
Jonathan and
Veronica Flaspoehler
Staying Conected
By Hope Baptiste
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Contributed
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ers he had considered. The ROTC
academic scholarship he earned
made his decision that much easier.
For Veronica, a Costa Rican native
whose family relocated to North
Carolina when she was a child,
Carolina was the best fit among the
terrific in-state schools she looked
at because it had the academics
she was looking for and the college
experience she wanted.
Carolina’s commitment to
meet 100 percent of its students’
demonstrated financial need was
also significant. “I come from a
working family, and I had always
worked myself as well,” Veronica
said. “My opportunity to come
to UNC and earn a degree was
made possible in part because of
the generosity of others. Our hard
work was rewarded, and we want
to ensure that remains a reality for
future generations.”
That philosophy was reinforced
when Veronica served as vice
president of her senior class and
became involved with the Class of
2008 Senior Campaign. That year,
she and her fellow officers were
charged with raising awareness
among her classmates about the
importance of private giving and
encouraging them to support their
class’s chosen initiative, Carolina
for Kibera, by donating $20.08.
“That effort really showed us just
how powerful seemingly small do-nations
can be when combined with
others for a common cause. Jon even
sold his DVD collection to make his
class gift contribution and he’s never
regretted it.”
Both earned degrees in 2008—
Jonathan in peace, war and defense,
and Veronica in public policy and
economics with a minor in entrepre-neurship.
Jonathan recently completed his
four-year commitment to the armed
forces, re-enlisted and is an Army
captain stationed at Fort Bragg.
He is now training at the John F.
Kennedy Special Warfare School
and learning Arabic. Veronica is
an implementation consultant with
Wells Fargo.
“It is not our birthright that UNC
will always remain among the
nation’s top research universities;
it’s up to us to make sure Carolina
remains on top for our children and
theirs,” Jonathan said. “Service,
whether to community, country or
even college, is a value that was
instilled in us at UNC and has
been reinforced by our time in the
military. Giving at this point in our
lives is a tangible way for us to give
back, to serve our university, which
gave us so many opportunities.
Like many young alumni, we were
geographically separated from
Chapel Hill after graduation, but
giving allows us to stay connected
to a place that is very special to
us.” n
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Yvonne Lewis Holley knew that the boxes in her Raleigh basement contained important items,
but she thought that importance was limited to her family.
Turns out, those items—now called the Lewis Family Collection, fully documented and
archived in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC Libraries—hold a much wider value.
Holley’s father, J.D. Lewis, was North Carolina’s first African-American radio announcer. He
was hired at Raleigh’s WRAL in 1947, and for the next five decades was a leading local figure on
radio and television. In 1958, he hosted Teenage Frolic, a live dance show that pre-dated Ameri-can
Bandstand.
Lewis and his wife, Louise, reared five children in Raleigh, and his editorials, videotapes and
props from the show—which Yvonne inherited—were stored in his basement.
It wasn’t until Holley attended an event honoring the 40th anniversary of the Department of
African and African American Studies as a guest of her sister, Evelyn Lewis, that she realized
her father’s papers could be of scholarly importance. She got to talking with faculty while there,
and they helped her see how many stories lay within those boxes: a history of journalism, a real-life
look at African Americans in 20th century North Carolina, a peek at popular music. So, in
consultation with her siblings, Holley decided to donate the whole lot.
“The boxes in our basement were filled with news clippings, letters, photographs and record-ings,
many from the 1950s and 1960s,” Holley said. “We wanted to make sure that these materi-als
would go to an institution and actually be used by students, scholars and the general public,
and not just sit in boxes.”
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Yvonne Lewis Holley
Sharing a family’s heri tage
By Claire Cusick
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Yvonne Lewis Holley
The Lewis items were the centerpiece of an exhibit,
Southern Roots, Enduring Bonds: African American
Families in North Carolina, held in the Southern
Historical Collection (4th floor) in Spring 2012. The
purpose of the exhibit was to encourage African-
American families to partner with the Library in
preserving their family history, and marked the launch of
the African American Family Documentation Initiative
in the Southern Historical Collection (SHC).
SHC archivist Holly Smith coordinates the initiative.
She said she hopes North Carolina’s African-American
families will recognize the depth of the Library’s com-mitment
to caring for family treasures and making them
available for students and scholars to learn from.
“The University has a duty and obligation to the
surrounding community to preserve the history of the
people who worked, slaved and labored in this area,”
she said.
Holley hopes to continue her involvement with the SHC
and the new initiative by introducing her friends to the
idea of cleaning out their basements, so to speak.
“The people here have all been wonderful,” she said.
“I hope that more families decide to participate, and that
their family legacies will be preserved just like ours.” n
“We wanted to
make sure that
these materials
would go to an
institution and
actually be used
by students,
scholars and the
general public,
and not just sit
in boxes.”
—Yvonne Lewis Holley
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John T. Moore ’88 wants to give Carolina students
real-world experiences even before they gradu-ate.
He does this in two ways: He and his business
partners at the Marwood Group, a health-care and
financial services firm with offices in New York
City and Washington, D.C., host 10 to 15 college
students—many of them from UNC—every summer.
And he directly supports Carolina students who are
majoring in communication studies by offering them
a stipend for any internship they undertake.
“It’s been great,” Moore said of the Marwood
interns. “For the most part, the students really
enjoy them. Of course, it impacts some more than
others. Each summer’s group is different. We enjoy
doing it.”
The program is specifically designed to expose
the interns to different aspects of Marwood’s busi-ness.
The students are assigned to one of the groups
within Marwood, but attend “lunch and learn”
sessions each week to hear from leaders from other
aspects of Marwood’s businesses.
“We do a lot of Q&A sessions,” Moore said. “We
tell them the internship program is more for them
than for us. In college, you’re paying somebody to
John T. Moore
making it real
By Claire Cusick
John T. Moore
Contributed
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“ I always tell the
students: look
at the buildings
on campus.
Those buildings
weren’t just there.
People have
gone through the
University and
chosen to give
back. Students
now are the
recipients of
that largesse.
I hope I can
make students
cognizant of the
people coming
behind them.”
—John T. Moore
teach you, but in the real world, someone is paying you to work. A company
doesn’t owe it to you to train you. We want them to realize that college is a
different dynamic than the real world, and hopefully give them an advantage
by telling them that.”
To add to the in-office experience, Moore and his partners also schedule
social events: tours of New York City, visits to the D.C. office and an end-of-
summer party. “We try and keep it a mix of work and fun so they enjoy
themselves,” he said.
In addition, Moore and his wife continue to support the John and Tatiana
Moore Student Internship Fund in the UNC Department of Communication
Studies. The fund, which they created in 2005, gives a stipend to communica-tion
studies majors who secure an internship in a major city.
The goal, again, is that real-world experience.
“I enjoy just offering an experience that many students don’t have a chance
to get before they graduate,” Moore said. “I certainly didn’t have it, but I did
benefit from people who went before me at UNC. I always tell the students:
look at the buildings on campus. Those buildings weren’t just there. People
have gone through the University and chosen to give back. Students now are
the recipients of that largesse. I hope I can make students cognizant of the
people coming behind them.”
The Moore Student Internship Fund got a big boost in the past couple of
years because of some of those very students. In 2009, some of Marwood’s
Carolina interns told Moore about the 2010-2011 Senior Campaign in the
Carolina Annual Fund, which has a participation goal each academic year.
Moore agreed to provide a challenge grant of $20,000 if the class met its goal.
They did, and he made good on his word. He did the same for the Class of
2012 and has pledged the same amount for the Class of 2013. His challenges
have helped boost senior participation to great numbers: 47 percent in 2011
and 43 percent in 2012.
“The money goes to perpetuate the fund and provide more resources for it,”
he said. “Internships go hand in hand with the learning and academics that
are being taught.” n
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When UNC plastic surgeon John van Aalst went to Palestine seven years ago, he wasn’t sure whether
he would wind up doing any useful surgery or simply learning what local surgeons needed. Today he is
a major player in the effort to repair clefts in Palestine—both physiological and social.
Van Aalst’s mother was born in Palestine, and he still has family in Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
Thanks to a series of fortuitous connections, he was able to go back in 2005 for a two-week
professional tour that received widespread regional publicity. In addition to delivering multiple lectures,
van Aalst saw 10 patients and operated on five of them. One of those was a young boy who, according
to the father, had been turned away from Hadassah Medical Center as too complex a case.
“Now, of course, they certainly could have done something,” recalled van Aalst. “But for whatever
reason, it was not handled there, so we did the surgery.
“The next day it was big news in the Palestinian press: ‘Surgery that couldn’t be done in Hadassah
was done by Palestinian surgeon!’ There was a newspaper article about my lectures and our clinical
work almost every day after that for the rest of my visit.
“That was when I realized what was actually at the heart of some of the problems that the Palestin-ian
people have. It’s simply a confidence issue. ‘Can you do it?’”
Meeting the challenge
Van Aalst and other Palestinian physicians were convinced that they could. Two years later, the Pales-tinian
Cleft Society (PCS) was formed to provide comprehensive medical, dental and surgical care for
children with clefts on the West Bank and in Gaza.
In May 2012, van Aalst and a team of health-care professionals joined forces with PCS colleagues
for the 18th time to conduct cleft clinics and provide instruction to a range of health-care workers. In a
little more than two weeks, the group performed 107 surgeries, bringing its total to more than 950.
Securing funding for these medical missions has been an on-going challenge, with companies in
the health-care industry and UNC Health Care donating surgical instruments and supplies. To help
with the other costs, the PCS has partnered with the Furlow Fund in a campaign to raise awareness
of, and money for, its work. The Furlow Fund, a nonprofit housed at the UNC Medical Foundation,
Sim ply a Confidence Isue
By Brenda Denzler
impact of giving
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supports the PCS’s work. Support
has also come from private
international cleft organizations
such as Operation Smile and Smile
Train, which in 2011-2012 awarded
PCS a $95,000 grant.
Repairing the hidden clefts
Van Aalst’s vision for the people
of Palestine now goes far beyond
increasing their ability to identify
and treat Palestinian children with
clefts. The long-term goal, he says, is
to help repair the crisis of confidence
that prevents Palestinians from see-ing
themselves and their society in
strong, positive, empowered ways.
“The problem with Palestine,”
mused van Aalst, “is that it’s a
troubled area. The reality is that life
is tough. It can be very destructive.
But the Palestinian people have it
within themselves to be able to help
other people. Not to need help, but
to be able to give it.
“The irony is that here we are
trying to repair the clefts in
the physical, so that they’re not
seen,” he observed. “But all the
work really is to try to make
the other clefts visible and
repair them.
“I think people are buying into
it. That’s been a tremendous joy,
seeing people say, ‘You know,
we can get through this. We will
accomplish this.’” n
“ The reality is that
life is tough. It can
be very destructive.
But the Palestinian
people have it
within themselves
to be able to help
other people. Not
to need help, but to
be able to give it.”
—John van Aalst
Surgeons with the Palestinian Cleft
Society perform a cleft repair on the
West Bank, Palestine.
Maria A. van Aalst
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William “Bill” Noble Starling Jr. ’75 and his wife,
Dana, know a thing or two about both living for today
and planning for tomorrow. UNC has been a part of
their philanthropic and estate plans for nearly two
decades, and now the Starlings have built significantly
on a charitable remainder trust they created in 1993 to
benefit several areas at Carolina.
“We have been very pleased with the trust’s funds
over its lifetime, and we have seen it multiply nearly
fourfold,” Bill said. “Seeing our investment grow like
this not only benefits Dana and me during our life-times,
but will hopefully stand Carolina in good stead
in the future as well.”
Indeed. The trust will benefit five areas on campus
that are especially important to the Starlings:
• Kenan-Flagler Business School;
• Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center;
• the Chancellor’s Unrestricted Fund;
• the UNC Center for Heart and Vascular Care; and
• the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center.
But the Starlings don’t just give generously of their
resources, they also contribute their time and tal-ent
as ambassadors of the University to friends and
colleagues. Their ongoing support of UNC made
Bill a perfect fit for UNC’s National Development
Council and the Carolina First Western U.S. Regional
Campaign Steering Committee that convened dur-ing
UNC’s most recent major fund-raising drive, the
Carolina First Campaign. Bill said that was one of the
easiest and most rewarding roles he played.
“Carolina has a fantastic development team, and
Dana and I were very aware of the impact that such an
effort would have on the futures of so many,” he said.
“I still take pride in sharing my experience with folks
and inviting them to join me in one of the best experi-ences
I’ve had with any organization.”
Bill also brought his business acumen to bear on
the University. He has worked with the Chancellor’s
Innovation Circle and the UNC Business Accelerator
for Sustainable Entrepreneurship Advisory Board.
He serves on several boards of visitors for UNC,
including for Kenan-Flagler Business School (as chair),
the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the
Center for Heart & Vascular Care, and the Morehead
Planetarium and Science Center. He also served on
Kenan-Flagler’s Center for Entrepreneurship and
Technology Venturing External Advisory Committee.
Bill’s Carolina roots run deep. He came to UNC
after graduating from Needham B. Broughton High
School in his hometown of Raleigh, N.C. He was no
stranger to the place, as his father, the late William
Noble Starling ’51, had also been a Tar Heel. And he’d
grown up close by. But that wasn’t the deciding factor
in his decision. “Carolina has always been a great
place to get an education and to explore your interests
and discover new ones,” Bill said. “We North Carolin-ians
are fortunate to have so many great schools right
here at home, it didn’t occur to me at the time to look
elsewhere, and I sure wasn’t going to the ‘Red’ school
or the ‘Dark Blue’ school!”
He says his time at Carolina was the first leg on the
road to the rest of his life.
In 1975, Bill earned his bachelor’s degree in
business administration from what would become
Kenan-Flagler Business School, then packed his
car with all he owned and headed west to pursue an
M.B.A. at the University of Southern California’s
Marshall School of Business.
Bill credits his professors and the experience he
gained from his time at Kenan-Flagler for helping
launch him from the comfortable nest of his home
state out into the great unknown. “I don’t think I
would have ever pursued a graduate degree outside
the state, much less on the West Coast, if I hadn’t had
such good relationships with my professors as well as
the folks in the placement office here,” he said. “Cal
Atwood, the director of admissions for the business
Bill and Dana Starling
trust ing in the future
By hope baptiste
27
Bill and Dana Starling
school at the time, introduced me to the folks at USC, and encouraged me to
significantly broaden the scope of my education, to look beyond the familiar
and try something new. I did.”
From USC, Bill launched a successful career as an executive/entrepreneur
in the medical device industry, particularly high technology cardiovascular
devices as well as technology devoted to other medical specialties such as
obesity and less invasive surgery technologies.
His work took him from Los Angeles, Calif., to Milwaukee, Wis., Europe,
Asia and finally to Silicon Valley. He’s now the chief executive officer of
Synecor, LLC, a privately held business accelerator with offices on both U.S.
coasts that focuses on creating highly proprietary, disruptive technologies
in the medical device and combination drug/device markets. He’s also
managing director of Synergy Life Science Partners, a venture capital firm
that focuses on investing in private, early stage medical device companies.
So Bill has come full circle so to speak.
“My time at Carolina prepared me well for whatever path I chose and gave
me the tools I needed to follow that path,” Bill said. “Dana and I hope that our
gift will help tomorrow’s UNC students do the same.” n
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Contributed
Woody and Jean Durham were honored in October
2011 in Chapel Hill for their volunteer service to UNC
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at a dinner
called “A Toast to Woody.”
The dinner raised $25,000 for the N.C. Cancer
Hospital Clinical Endowment Fund and in recognition
of these gifts, a consultation room in the Patient and
Family Resource Center will be named in their honor.
The event recognized recently retired Hall of Fame
broadcaster Woody Durham for his remarkable con-tributions
to Carolina Athletics over a distinguished
40-year career.
The event included speakers Eric Montross, for-mer
UNC basketball star and now radio analyst; Rick
Steinbacher, UNC associate athletic director; Dick
Baddour, former UNC Athletic Director; Mick Mixon,
a former colleague of Durham’s and current play-by-play
announcer for the Carolina Panthers; Phil Ford,
retired UNC and professional basketball player; UNC
Chancellor Holden Thorp; and Dr. Shelley Earp, UNC
Lineberger director.
The morning after the event, Woody Durham served
as emcee for the UNC Lineberger signature event: Fast
Break with Roy Williams, a yearly breakfast held on the
floor of the Dean E. Smith Center. Durham’s skills as
an auctioneer has helped the event to raise $1.2 million
over an eight-year period.
The toast also honored Jean Durham for her tireless
leadership of the signature UNC Lineberger event, Tick-led
Pink, for many years. She organized a committed
cadre of volunteers, leading the decorating of the event
site, and producing very successful and fun events.
The Durhams were honored in 2010 by UNC Line-berger
with the Outstanding Service Award, an annual
award given to volunteers who provide dedicated ser-vice
and outstanding leadership to UNC Lineberger. n
‘A Toast to Woody’
Durhams honored for their volunteer servi ce
to unc lineberger
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Woody and Jean Durham with UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp and his wife Patti
Brian Strickland
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Development
Annual Report Carolina
Fiscal Year 2012
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Carolina Development Annual Report:
Fiscal Year 2012 was produced
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Chapel Hill, NC 27514-0309.
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All photography by Dan Sears unless
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table of contents
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2 Board of Trustees
3 Chancellor’s Message
4 Highlights
6 Financials
Profiles in Giving
12 Don and Jennifer Holzworth
Dedicated difference makers
18 Jonathan and Veronica Flaspoehler
Staying connected
20 Yvonne Lewis Holley
Sharing a family’s heritage
22 John T. Moore
Making it real
26 Bill and Dana Starling
Trusting in the future
Impact of Giving
14 New dental school facility just latest mark of Maurice Koury’s generosity
16 Saying ‘yes,’ permanently
24 Simply a confidence issue
Snapshot
28 ‘A Toast to Woody’
The following is a list of UNC Board of Trustees
members who served during fiscal year 2012.
Wade Hampton Hargrove (Chair)
Barbara Rosser Hyde (Vice Chair)
W. Lowry Caudill
Phillip L. Clay
Mary Cooper (Student Body President)
Donald Williams Curtis
Alston Gardner
Peter T. Grauer
H. Kel Landis III
Steven Lerner
Sallie Shuping-Russell
Eddie Smith
John L. Townsend III
Felicia A. Washington
BO A RD OF TRUSTEES 2
3
“As the nation’s
first public
university, we have
a responsibility
and an opportunity
to imagine and
implement creative
ways to ensure
that our mission
continues to meet
society’s needs.”
chancellor’s message
Dear Carolina Supporters,
Your commitment to Carolina is so important to us.
We have faced challenges this past year, but in many ways,
our university has never been stronger. We have engaged
students and faculty who want to change the world for the
better, and who are acting on their aspirations. We have
researchers who are working to discover cures for diseases,
and clinicians who are already treating patients with the
most advanced care available. We have scholars who are
developing new bodies of knowledge and bringing fresh
insights to the old.
The signs of our strength are everywhere. Student
applications are up by 24 percent. We’ve climbed into the
top 10 in research funding. We’ve successfully steered the
campus through state budget cuts, protecting the classroom
experience and making our operations more efficient.
And we have you.
Despite continued economic doldrums, you gave Carolina
$287.4 million in gifts in fiscal year 2012. That marked
our second-best year ever. We also received $331.4 million
in commitments. Both topped the prior year’s totals of
$277 million and $305.6 million, respectively.
We’ve achieved all of these things because of your support.
Much more important, our students, faculty and programs
have benefitted from your generosity.
UNC and public universities across the country face
questions and challenges in the next few years. As the
nation’s first public university, we have a responsibility and
an opportunity to imagine and implement creative ways to
ensure that our mission continues to meet society’s needs.
It’s a big challenge, but we’re going to be the model for
getting it right.
Meantime, thanks in large part to your support, we’ll
continue to move forward doing what we’ve always done:
provide students a great education and contribute to the
health and welfare of the world.
Thank you, and Hark the Sound.
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Holden Thorp
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n A $2.5 million gift from Fred Eshelman will expand the
Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s research programs and help
transform the classroom experience for pharmacy students. The
gift brings Eshelman’s total support for the school to more than
$35 million. Eshelman is the founder of Pharmaceutical Product
Development Inc. and a 1972 graduate of the pharmacy school.
The school was named for Eshelman in 2008.
n A $1 million commitment from alumnus Nelson Schwab
III, successful business executive and former chair of UNC’s
Board of Trustees, endowed the Nelson Schwab “Say Yes” Fund
in the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and will initially
provide $50,000 a year to benefit faculty in fine arts, humanities
and humanistic social sciences departments within the College
of Arts and Sciences. The funds will support teaching and
scholarly activities, build morale, enable strategic planning or
realize other goals or initiatives envisioned by department
chairs. (See story on page 29.)
n An $850,000, three-year grant from The Duke Endowment
will allow the UNC Center for Excellence in Community
Mental Health in the School of Medicine to integrate primary
care into its mental health-care programs for persons in Orange,
Person and Chatham counties, creating a “health home” for
those patients. A health and wellness-programming component
will support health lifestyle change and prevent chronic disease.
n A $1.39 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation will expand digital humanities in a transformative
way at UNC, including the hiring of new faculty and the
support of graduate students in this emerging field. The grant
will help UNC create the Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative,
a $5 million effort that will explore the application of cutting-edge
digital technologies to humanities research, teaching,
graduate training and public engagement. Digital humanities is
an area of research, teaching and knowledge creation at the
intersection of computing and humanities. It is interdisciplinary
Highlights from the year—
highlights
• Carolina’s fund-raising efforts brought in $287.4 million in private gifts, marking the
second-highest year in history for this type of support, which is immediately available to
the University.
• In commitments, Carolina secured $331.4 million from more than 78,000 donors.
Commitments include pledges as well as gifts.
• Both totals were up from the previous fiscal year. Gifts rose 4 percent, from $277 million,
and commitments increased 8 percent, from $305.6 million.
• Commitments in fiscal year 2012 helped the University create nine endowed professorships,
as well as a total of 95 undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships.
development Fiscal year 2012: July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012
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and embraces a variety of topics, ranging from curating online
collections to mining information from large data sets.
n Two contributions totaling $2.7 million from the Kathrine
R. Everett Charitable Trust will support the School of Law.
The first gift of $2.4 million will create an endowment to fund at
least six full-tuition Everett Chancellors’ Scholarships for highly
promising law students from North Carolina. A second
complementary gift of $300,000 will endow the Everett
Enrichment Fund, which will provide program support of all
students awarded Chancellors’ Scholarships at the law school.
n A $666,000 gift from Don and Jennifer Holzworth created
the Don and Jennifer Holzworth Distinguished Professorship
Fund in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. The
professorship supports a professor who is a global leader in
research and policies for improving the world’s access to clean
water and sanitation. Don Holzworth founded Constella Group
and Expression Analysis Inc. Jennifer Holzworth was Constella’s
chief financial officer during its start-up phase and has focused
on volunteer work, most recently with emergency and other
medical services in Vail, Colo. (See story on page 16.)
n A $270,000 grant from the Japan Foundation in Tokyo
enabled UNC, N.C. State University and Duke University to
launch a Triangle Center for Japanese Studies that will support
fellowships, research, seminars, travel, guest speakers and
library development. The center will serve as an umbrella over
the activities related to Japan that are already happening at the
three schools, and call attention to the strength and depth of
those activities collectively. Faculty collaborating in the center
are from fields including history, anthropology and art history,
as well as Asian studies, language and literature.
n A three-year, $900,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation will enable the Carolina Global Breastfeeding
Institute in the Gillings School of Global Public Health to
translate action-oriented research and program theory into
practice and develop an environment in which more women
can decide to breastfeed and achieve their breastfeeding goals.
The institute, based in the public health school’s Department of
Maternal and Child Health, carries out innovative efforts to
improve breastfeeding support for underserved populations in
North Carolina and beyond.
n The Jarrahi Family Library Fund for Persian Studies will
provide sustained library support for one of the most rapidly
growing programs at the University. Established with a $25,000
contribution from Dr. Ali Jarrahi of Winston-Salem, N.C., the
fund will be the cornerstone of an endowment to pay for the
purchase of books, journals, films and language-learning
resources to enrich Middle East and African Studies. Jarrahi is
an Iranian-born psychiatrist who completed his training at
UNC in 1967 and earned a master of public health degree from
the University in 1969.
n A gift of more than $1 million from Jay and Babette
Tanenbaum established a new distinguished professorship in
Jewish studies, providing an endowment that will support a
tenure track faculty member who specializes in Jewish
history and culture. The professorship is based in the
Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, an interdisciplinary
academic program in the College of Arts and Sciences that
promotes a deeper understanding of Jewish history, culture
and thought through its teaching, research and community
outreach initiatives. Jay Tanenbaum, founder and president
of Primus Capital LLC, a structured finance and investment
company based in Atlanta, Ga., is former chair and current
executive committee member of The Goldring/Woldenberg
Institute of Southern Jewish Life.
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financials
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: $142.5
: $81.4
: $12.3
: $33.3
: $4.6
: $15.2
FY 2012 gifts by purpose*
: $86.8
: $144.5
: $32.6
: $25.4
*Rounded to nearest $100,000
Gifts by area for FY 2012* : $86.8
: $144.5
: $32.6
: $25.4
: $142.5
: $81.4
: $12.3
: $33.3
: $4.6
: $15.2
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*Rounded to nearest $100,000
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University-wide gift totals,
FY 2003 – FY 2012
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
9 : 3,585 (23.7% )
/ : 90 (.6%)
: 7,946 (52.4%)
: 50,101 (63.5%
)
/
: 1,082 (1.4%)
: 19,052 (24.2%)
: 1,586 (2%)
: 607 (.8%)
: 711 (.9%)
: 1,768 (2.2%)
: 3,963 (5%)
*Percentages rounded to nearest 10th
Donors in FY 2012*
*Percentages rounded to nearest 10th
: 50,101 (63.5%
)
/
: 1,082 (1.4%)
: 19,052 (24.2%)
: 1,586 (2%)
: 607 (.8%)
: 711 (.9%)
: 1,768 (2.2%)
: 3,963 (5%)
: 3,585 (23.7%
)
/
: 90 (.6%)
: 7,946 (52.4%)
: 671 (4.4%)
: 113 (.8%)
: 303 (2%)
: 1,447 (9.5%)
: 1,002 (6.6%)
New donors in FY 2012*
9
10
Endowed
professorships
Scholarships/
fellowships
Distribution of professorships created by FY 2012 gifts
62
1,477
33
9
749
482
62 scholarship funds created in FY 2012
1,477 scholarship funds total (as of June 30, 2012)
33 fellowship funds created in FY 2012
9 professorships created in FY 2012
482 professorships total (as of June 30, 2012)
749 fellowship funds total (as of June 30, 2012)
4 College of Arts and Sciences
2 School of Medicine
1 Eshelman School of Pharmacy
1 Gillings School of Global Public Health
1 School of Education
In fiscal year 2012, the State of North Carolina Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund
provided a total of $1.3 million in matching funds to boost the value of Carolina donors’
contributions. The state fund, established in 1985 by the N.C. General Assembly, helps UNC
system schools recruit and retain outstanding faculty.
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,
: 9.4%
: 26.8%
: 31.6%
: 12.6%
: 19.2%
: 0.4%
Total FY 2012
gifts: endowment,
expendable and
capital*
:
$52.6
:
$232.8
: $3.9
*Unaudited; percentages rounded to nearest 10th
*Rounded to nearest $100,000
Carolina’s sources of
revenue for FY 2012*
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Often, the most significant rewards stem from doing
something simply because it is the right thing to do.
For Don and Jennifer Holzworth, that is precisely
why they support Carolina and its Gillings School of
Global Public Health so fervently. Though they don’t
have specific ties to the University as alumni (son David
is a Class of 2010 graduate), they are deeply committed
to advancing its work to tackle some of the world’s most
pressing problems.
“We were first introduced to the University’s work
when Bill Roper, dean of the School of Public Health
at the time, invited me to join the Dean’s Advisory
Council,” Don said. “Since my business focused on
global health consulting, I welcomed the opportunity to
Don and Jennifer
Holzworth
Dedica ted diference makers
By Hope Baptiste
Don and Jennifer Holzworth
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health/Linda Kastleman
profile in giving
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support emerging technologies, scholarship, research,
policy development and grass-roots efforts in improving
the health and welfare of people around the globe.”
They’ve been involved—and invested—ever since.
The couple established a popular and innovative online
executive doctoral program in health leadership,
created the Arthur B. Holzworth Scholarship in Health
Leadership, the Charles A. Veatch Scholarship in
Health Leadership and the Don and Jennifer Holzworth
Merit Scholarship in Public Health. They also support
the Triangle Global Health Case Competition.
The Holzworths’ latest gift to UNC’s public health
school centers around the University’s academic
theme, “Water In Our World,” and aims to support a
global leader in research and policies for improving
the world’s access to clean water and sanitation. Their
commitment of $666,000, combined with matching
funds from the North Carolina Distinguished
Professors Endowment Trust Fund, is creating the $1
million Don and Jennifer Holzworth Distinguished
Professorship Fund. James “Jamie” Kniveton Bartram,
professor of environmental sciences and engineering
and director of UNC’s Water Institute, was named the
inaugural Holzworth Distinguished Professor in April
2012. The institute is based in the public health school.
“We are delighted to be in a position to support the
University’s work, particularly in the area of global water
and sanitation,” Don said. “Through the Water Institute
at UNC and other exciting initiatives, we have the oppor-tunity
to make a meaningful difference in the world by
leading efforts that leverage ideas coming from universi-ties,
governments and the private sector.”
Don, who serves as the school’s first Gillings
Executive-in-Residence, is chair of the School of Public
Health Advisory Council and an adjunct professor
of health policy and management. He is a member
of the Chancellor’s Innovation Circle and has been
instrumental in helping to lead innovation at the school
and in launching the Water Institute.
Global public health, particularly accessible clean
water and sanitation, has been a priority for the
Holzworths throughout their lives both professionally
and personally. Contributing significantly to work
already under way at the school engaged their expertise
and their passion to make the world a better place for
all its citizens.
“Getting to know people here as the executive-in-residence
and experiencing firsthand this amazing
collection of talented faculty gives you every reason
to believe that what was once impossible is now very
possible,” Don said. “The goal is to have a global
impact and, in turn, position the University as a
worldwide leader in developing strategies, policies,
best practices and scholarship across the spectrum of
public health issues. Jennifer and I are honored to be
a part of that.”
The Holzworths also support UNC athletics, and Don
serves on the Executive Committee of the Educational
Foundation.
In 1983, Don founded Constella Group, a human
health services company that employed innovative
science, technology and management solutions to solve
pressing health problems in more than 60 countries.
In 2001, he founded Expression Analysis Inc., a
genomic services company that unravels the genetic
basis of disease. He served on the President’s Advisory
Council for HIV/AIDS under the Bush administration.
He is a member of the Executive Committee and
Board of Directors for the Accordia Global Health
Foundation, which builds centers of excellence in
Sub-Saharan Africa focused on reducing the burden of
infectious diseases.
Jennifer was Constella’s chief financial officer during
its start-up phase and has focused on volunteer work,
most recently with emergency and other medical
services in Vail, Colo. n
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The UNC School of Dentistry opened the doors to
a new education and research facility and honored a
generous alumnus and friend, Burlington businessman
Maurice J. Koury, in April 2012.
The Koury Oral Health Sciences Building, which
adds 216,500 square feet of space, adjoins the school’s
existing structures—Tarrson Hall, Brauer Hall and
Old Dental Building—at the corner of Manning Drive
and South Columbia Street.
“This is an exciting time for the UNC School of
Dentistry,” said Dean Jane A. Weintraub. “The Koury
Oral Health Sciences Building will allow us to contin-ue
being a leader in dental education and research for
many years to come. We’re grateful beyond words for
the investment the General Assembly, our University
and our private donors, especially Mr. Koury, made in
our school to make this facility a reality.”
The Koury Oral Health Sciences Building provides
improved technology for teaching and collaborative
research across UNC and other campuses, larger
lecture rooms and meeting spaces for inter-class
collaboration, and an expanded 105-seat patient
simulation laboratory.
“This is a space designed to foster the exchange
of ideas and personal interactions,” said Silvana P.
Barros, a research associate professor in the dental
school’s Department of Periodontology who is
working in the new facility. “The state-of-the-art
labs are open with well-placed common areas. We
envision that our facility will attract new collaborators
and expand our cutting-edge research. For rising and
Dr. Silvana P. Barros at work in the
Koury Oral Health Sciences Building
impact of giving
new den tal school facility ju st lates t
mark of mauric e kour y ’s generosity
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From left, Chancellor Holden
Thorp, School of Dentistry
Dean Jane Weintraub, Board of
Trustees Chair Wade Hargrove
Jr., Ann Koury and Maurice
Koury cut the ribbon at the
dedication of the Koury Oral
Health Sciences Building.
“ This is an exciting time for the UNC School of
Dentistry. The Koury Oral Health Sciences Building
will allow us to continue being a leader in dental
education and research for many years to come.”
—Dean Jane A. Weintraub
established star researchers, this is the place to be.”
Koury is president of Carolina Hosiery Mills Inc. and
over the years his business interests have also expanded
to the development of hotels and commercial properties.
The Koury Oral Health Sciences Building is the latest
example of Koury’s generosity and impact across the
Carolina campus. Others include the Kenan-Flagler
Business School’s Koury Auditorium; Koury Residence
Hall; the Koury Library in the George Watts Hill Alumni
Center; and the Koury Natatorium.
Koury, who enrolled at UNC as an undergraduate
in 1945, began his relationship with the School of
Dentistry nearly 30 years ago as a patient and through
patient referrals he made to the school.
Koury’s undergraduate years at Carolina were the
beginning of a lifelong commitment to public higher
education and Carolina in particular. Koury served
two terms on the University’s Board of Trustees,
and he chaired the student affairs and development
committees. He also served two terms as president of the
Educational Foundation Inc. and was the longtime chair
of the foundation’s endowment trust. The Burlington
native played a major role in securing funding for the
Dean E. Smith Center and made a generous leadership
gift to the George Watts Hill Alumni Center. His
contributions to the College of Arts and Sciences include
the establishment of the Edna J. Koury Distinguished
Professorship, which honors his mother.
Koury’s University honors include the William
Richardson Davie Award, the highest recognition given
by the trustees, an honorary degree and the General
Alumni Association’s Distinguished Service Medal. n
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When Nelson Schwab III committed $1 million in 2011 to endow
the “Say Yes” Fund in the Institute for the Arts and Humanities
(IAH), it was the second part of a two-part process. The first part
came years earlier, when Schwab was the largest donor in a pool
that funded a pilot project. The success of that pilot let Schwab and
the fund’s administrators know that it would work ongoing.
In 2005, Schwab gave an expendable gift of $100,000, and other
donors added to it, making about $150,000 available, said John
McGowan, director of the IAH. Fifteen departments in the fine
arts, humanities and humanistic social sciences within the College
of Arts and Sciences each received $10,000 to spend during 2006
to 2009. The money was given to the department chairs, who
distributed it at their discretion.
The response varied widely, McGowan said. “Some departments
used it for team-building exercises, such as starting a strategic plan
or holding a department retreat. Others spent it on basic equipment
needs, such as software. And some used it to hire research
assistants,” he said.
It was a huge success. “The chairs were so enthusiastic,” he said.
“Our next thought was how to endow it.”
At any campus, but especially during the current difficult budget
times, instructional needs take up all the money, McGowan said.
This means department chairs have a really tough job. “They have
to say no a lot. A faculty member comes to them and asks for
something, and the money just isn’t there, so they have to say no.”
But this program finally allowed them to say yes. “That’s where
the name came from,” McGowan said.
From the department chair’s perspective, being able to say “yes”
is a huge thing, said McKay Coble, chair of the Department of
Dramatic Art.
“What happens when you’re able to say ‘yes,’ you’re able to create
an atmosphere of hope,” Coble said. “It’s just small things, but they
build up and change the atmosphere. Because we were able to say
yes to somebody, we surprised people.”
With Schwab’s $1 million endowment gift, “yes” will become a
permanent refrain.
The Nelson Schwab “Say Yes” Fund in the IAH will provide
up to $50,000 a year to continue benefiting faculty in fine arts,
humanities and humanistic social sciences departments.
“In my long association with the IAH, I have come to understand
the critical role department chairs play in retaining good faculty
impact of giving
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By Claire Cusick
Nelson Schwab III
saying ‘yes,’ pe rmanently
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McKay Coble, chair of the
Department of Dramatic Art, can
now say “yes” more often.
and maintaining the overall quality of the University,” Schwab said.
“In these difficult financial times their resources have been stretched very
thin. The ‘Say Yes’ Fund has proved that with some strategically placed funds,
even in smaller amounts, good things can happen. So I am delighted to help
endow this effort so that department chairs will have access to discretionary
funds that can be used for academic excellence.”
Departmental chairs submitted proposals for funds to support teaching and
scholarly activities, build morale, enable strategic planning or realize other
goals or initiatives envisioned by chairs to improve their departments.
And the funded projects show that some of those gaps will be filled. The
Department of Art will be able to buy high-definition video-recorders;
the Department of Dramatic Art will purchase a lighting board and other
equipment for Kenan Theater. Both the Department of Classics and the
Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures will use their
grants to hold a lecture series; the departments of communications studies
and history will each hold a departmental colloquium. The Department of
Music’s windfall will allow its wind ensemble to travel, and the Department of
Linguistics will be able to pay consultants for a fieldwork course.
Schwab ’67, a member of the IAH Advisory Board, is a managing partner
and co-founder of merchant banking firm Carousel Capital in Charlotte, N.C.,
and has given generously in time and service to UNC over the years. He served
on the boards of visitors both for the University and UNC’s Kenan-Flagler
Business School. A member of the Board of Trustees from 2001 to 2009, he
led the board as chair from 2005 to 2007. Schwab also was a member of the
Carolina First Campaign Steering Committee. n
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“What happens
when you’re
able to say ‘yes,’
you’re able to
create an
atmosphere
of hope.”
—McKay Coble
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Veronica and Jonathan Flaspoehler,
currently of Raeford, N.C., just
outside of Fort Bragg, are like most
20-something couples—they’re busy
building their careers and lives both
individually and jointly.
They’re also building their legacy
at Carolina and helping ensure the
future of the University’s excellence
over time with their annual support.
Just four years post-graduation, the
couple has committed to a lifetime
of support to their alma mater.
“We had always planned on giv-ing
back to the University because
we believe strongly that education
changes lives and communities,”
Veronica said. “By themselves, our
gifts are modest, but knowing that
they are combined with many others
makes the impact tremendous, and
that’s really powerful for us.”
More so, they say, given that
each came to UNC with the help of
scholarships. Jonathan chose UNC
over his home state’s flagship, the
University of Kentucky, because he
wanted to take advantage of UNC’s
prestigious Army ROTC program,
which he said far exceeded oth-
Veronica and Jonathan Flaspoehler
profile in giving
Jonathan and
Veronica Flaspoehler
Staying Conected
By Hope Baptiste
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Contributed
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ers he had considered. The ROTC
academic scholarship he earned
made his decision that much easier.
For Veronica, a Costa Rican native
whose family relocated to North
Carolina when she was a child,
Carolina was the best fit among the
terrific in-state schools she looked
at because it had the academics
she was looking for and the college
experience she wanted.
Carolina’s commitment to
meet 100 percent of its students’
demonstrated financial need was
also significant. “I come from a
working family, and I had always
worked myself as well,” Veronica
said. “My opportunity to come
to UNC and earn a degree was
made possible in part because of
the generosity of others. Our hard
work was rewarded, and we want
to ensure that remains a reality for
future generations.”
That philosophy was reinforced
when Veronica served as vice
president of her senior class and
became involved with the Class of
2008 Senior Campaign. That year,
she and her fellow officers were
charged with raising awareness
among her classmates about the
importance of private giving and
encouraging them to support their
class’s chosen initiative, Carolina
for Kibera, by donating $20.08.
“That effort really showed us just
how powerful seemingly small do-nations
can be when combined with
others for a common cause. Jon even
sold his DVD collection to make his
class gift contribution and he’s never
regretted it.”
Both earned degrees in 2008—
Jonathan in peace, war and defense,
and Veronica in public policy and
economics with a minor in entrepre-neurship.
Jonathan recently completed his
four-year commitment to the armed
forces, re-enlisted and is an Army
captain stationed at Fort Bragg.
He is now training at the John F.
Kennedy Special Warfare School
and learning Arabic. Veronica is
an implementation consultant with
Wells Fargo.
“It is not our birthright that UNC
will always remain among the
nation’s top research universities;
it’s up to us to make sure Carolina
remains on top for our children and
theirs,” Jonathan said. “Service,
whether to community, country or
even college, is a value that was
instilled in us at UNC and has
been reinforced by our time in the
military. Giving at this point in our
lives is a tangible way for us to give
back, to serve our university, which
gave us so many opportunities.
Like many young alumni, we were
geographically separated from
Chapel Hill after graduation, but
giving allows us to stay connected
to a place that is very special to
us.” n
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Yvonne Lewis Holley knew that the boxes in her Raleigh basement contained important items,
but she thought that importance was limited to her family.
Turns out, those items—now called the Lewis Family Collection, fully documented and
archived in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC Libraries—hold a much wider value.
Holley’s father, J.D. Lewis, was North Carolina’s first African-American radio announcer. He
was hired at Raleigh’s WRAL in 1947, and for the next five decades was a leading local figure on
radio and television. In 1958, he hosted Teenage Frolic, a live dance show that pre-dated Ameri-can
Bandstand.
Lewis and his wife, Louise, reared five children in Raleigh, and his editorials, videotapes and
props from the show—which Yvonne inherited—were stored in his basement.
It wasn’t until Holley attended an event honoring the 40th anniversary of the Department of
African and African American Studies as a guest of her sister, Evelyn Lewis, that she realized
her father’s papers could be of scholarly importance. She got to talking with faculty while there,
and they helped her see how many stories lay within those boxes: a history of journalism, a real-life
look at African Americans in 20th century North Carolina, a peek at popular music. So, in
consultation with her siblings, Holley decided to donate the whole lot.
“The boxes in our basement were filled with news clippings, letters, photographs and record-ings,
many from the 1950s and 1960s,” Holley said. “We wanted to make sure that these materi-als
would go to an institution and actually be used by students, scholars and the general public,
and not just sit in boxes.”
20 profile in giving
Yvonne Lewis Holley
Sharing a family’s heri tage
By Claire Cusick
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Yvonne Lewis Holley
The Lewis items were the centerpiece of an exhibit,
Southern Roots, Enduring Bonds: African American
Families in North Carolina, held in the Southern
Historical Collection (4th floor) in Spring 2012. The
purpose of the exhibit was to encourage African-
American families to partner with the Library in
preserving their family history, and marked the launch of
the African American Family Documentation Initiative
in the Southern Historical Collection (SHC).
SHC archivist Holly Smith coordinates the initiative.
She said she hopes North Carolina’s African-American
families will recognize the depth of the Library’s com-mitment
to caring for family treasures and making them
available for students and scholars to learn from.
“The University has a duty and obligation to the
surrounding community to preserve the history of the
people who worked, slaved and labored in this area,”
she said.
Holley hopes to continue her involvement with the SHC
and the new initiative by introducing her friends to the
idea of cleaning out their basements, so to speak.
“The people here have all been wonderful,” she said.
“I hope that more families decide to participate, and that
their family legacies will be preserved just like ours.” n
“We wanted to
make sure that
these materials
would go to an
institution and
actually be used
by students,
scholars and the
general public,
and not just sit
in boxes.”
—Yvonne Lewis Holley
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John T. Moore ’88 wants to give Carolina students
real-world experiences even before they gradu-ate.
He does this in two ways: He and his business
partners at the Marwood Group, a health-care and
financial services firm with offices in New York
City and Washington, D.C., host 10 to 15 college
students—many of them from UNC—every summer.
And he directly supports Carolina students who are
majoring in communication studies by offering them
a stipend for any internship they undertake.
“It’s been great,” Moore said of the Marwood
interns. “For the most part, the students really
enjoy them. Of course, it impacts some more than
others. Each summer’s group is different. We enjoy
doing it.”
The program is specifically designed to expose
the interns to different aspects of Marwood’s busi-ness.
The students are assigned to one of the groups
within Marwood, but attend “lunch and learn”
sessions each week to hear from leaders from other
aspects of Marwood’s businesses.
“We do a lot of Q&A sessions,” Moore said. “We
tell them the internship program is more for them
than for us. In college, you’re paying somebody to
John T. Moore
making it real
By Claire Cusick
John T. Moore
Contributed
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“ I always tell the
students: look
at the buildings
on campus.
Those buildings
weren’t just there.
People have
gone through the
University and
chosen to give
back. Students
now are the
recipients of
that largesse.
I hope I can
make students
cognizant of the
people coming
behind them.”
—John T. Moore
teach you, but in the real world, someone is paying you to work. A company
doesn’t owe it to you to train you. We want them to realize that college is a
different dynamic than the real world, and hopefully give them an advantage
by telling them that.”
To add to the in-office experience, Moore and his partners also schedule
social events: tours of New York City, visits to the D.C. office and an end-of-
summer party. “We try and keep it a mix of work and fun so they enjoy
themselves,” he said.
In addition, Moore and his wife continue to support the John and Tatiana
Moore Student Internship Fund in the UNC Department of Communication
Studies. The fund, which they created in 2005, gives a stipend to communica-tion
studies majors who secure an internship in a major city.
The goal, again, is that real-world experience.
“I enjoy just offering an experience that many students don’t have a chance
to get before they graduate,” Moore said. “I certainly didn’t have it, but I did
benefit from people who went before me at UNC. I always tell the students:
look at the buildings on campus. Those buildings weren’t just there. People
have gone through the University and chosen to give back. Students now are
the recipients of that largesse. I hope I can make students cognizant of the
people coming behind them.”
The Moore Student Internship Fund got a big boost in the past couple of
years because of some of those very students. In 2009, some of Marwood’s
Carolina interns told Moore about the 2010-2011 Senior Campaign in the
Carolina Annual Fund, which has a participation goal each academic year.
Moore agreed to provide a challenge grant of $20,000 if the class met its goal.
They did, and he made good on his word. He did the same for the Class of
2012 and has pledged the same amount for the Class of 2013. His challenges
have helped boost senior participation to great numbers: 47 percent in 2011
and 43 percent in 2012.
“The money goes to perpetuate the fund and provide more resources for it,”
he said. “Internships go hand in hand with the learning and academics that
are being taught.” n
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When UNC plastic surgeon John van Aalst went to Palestine seven years ago, he wasn’t sure whether
he would wind up doing any useful surgery or simply learning what local surgeons needed. Today he is
a major player in the effort to repair clefts in Palestine—both physiological and social.
Van Aalst’s mother was born in Palestine, and he still has family in Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
Thanks to a series of fortuitous connections, he was able to go back in 2005 for a two-week
professional tour that received widespread regional publicity. In addition to delivering multiple lectures,
van Aalst saw 10 patients and operated on five of them. One of those was a young boy who, according
to the father, had been turned away from Hadassah Medical Center as too complex a case.
“Now, of course, they certainly could have done something,” recalled van Aalst. “But for whatever
reason, it was not handled there, so we did the surgery.
“The next day it was big news in the Palestinian press: ‘Surgery that couldn’t be done in Hadassah
was done by Palestinian surgeon!’ There was a newspaper article about my lectures and our clinical
work almost every day after that for the rest of my visit.
“That was when I realized what was actually at the heart of some of the problems that the Palestin-ian
people have. It’s simply a confidence issue. ‘Can you do it?’”
Meeting the challenge
Van Aalst and other Palestinian physicians were convinced that they could. Two years later, the Pales-tinian
Cleft Society (PCS) was formed to provide comprehensive medical, dental and surgical care for
children with clefts on the West Bank and in Gaza.
In May 2012, van Aalst and a team of health-care professionals joined forces with PCS colleagues
for the 18th time to conduct cleft clinics and provide instruction to a range of health-care workers. In a
little more than two weeks, the group performed 107 surgeries, bringing its total to more than 950.
Securing funding for these medical missions has been an on-going challenge, with companies in
the health-care industry and UNC Health Care donating surgical instruments and supplies. To help
with the other costs, the PCS has partnered with the Furlow Fund in a campaign to raise awareness
of, and money for, its work. The Furlow Fund, a nonprofit housed at the UNC Medical Foundation,
Sim ply a Confidence Isue
By Brenda Denzler
impact of giving
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supports the PCS’s work. Support
has also come from private
international cleft organizations
such as Operation Smile and Smile
Train, which in 2011-2012 awarded
PCS a $95,000 grant.
Repairing the hidden clefts
Van Aalst’s vision for the people
of Palestine now goes far beyond
increasing their ability to identify
and treat Palestinian children with
clefts. The long-term goal, he says, is
to help repair the crisis of confidence
that prevents Palestinians from see-ing
themselves and their society in
strong, positive, empowered ways.
“The problem with Palestine,”
mused van Aalst, “is that it’s a
troubled area. The reality is that life
is tough. It can be very destructive.
But the Palestinian people have it
within themselves to be able to help
other people. Not to need help, but
to be able to give it.
“The irony is that here we are
trying to repair the clefts in
the physical, so that they’re not
seen,” he observed. “But all the
work really is to try to make
the other clefts visible and
repair them.
“I think people are buying into
it. That’s been a tremendous joy,
seeing people say, ‘You know,
we can get through this. We will
accomplish this.’” n
“ The reality is that
life is tough. It can
be very destructive.
But the Palestinian
people have it
within themselves
to be able to help
other people. Not
to need help, but to
be able to give it.”
—John van Aalst
Surgeons with the Palestinian Cleft
Society perform a cleft repair on the
West Bank, Palestine.
Maria A. van Aalst
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William “Bill” Noble Starling Jr. ’75 and his wife,
Dana, know a thing or two about both living for today
and planning for tomorrow. UNC has been a part of
their philanthropic and estate plans for nearly two
decades, and now the Starlings have built significantly
on a charitable remainder trust they created in 1993 to
benefit several areas at Carolina.
“We have been very pleased with the trust’s funds
over its lifetime, and we have seen it multiply nearly
fourfold,” Bill said. “Seeing our investment grow like
this not only benefits Dana and me during our life-times,
but will hopefully stand Carolina in good stead
in the future as well.”
Indeed. The trust will benefit five areas on campus
that are especially important to the Starlings:
• Kenan-Flagler Business School;
• Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center;
• the Chancellor’s Unrestricted Fund;
• the UNC Center for Heart and Vascular Care; and
• the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center.
But the Starlings don’t just give generously of their
resources, they also contribute their time and tal-ent
as ambassadors of the University to friends and
colleagues. Their ongoing support of UNC made
Bill a perfect fit for UNC’s National Development
Council and the Carolina First Western U.S. Regional
Campaign Steering Committee that convened dur-ing
UNC’s most recent major fund-raising drive, the
Carolina First Campaign. Bill said that was one of the
easiest and most rewarding roles he played.
“Carolina has a fantastic development team, and
Dana and I were very aware of the impact that such an
effort would have on the futures of so many,” he said.
“I still take pride in sharing my experience with folks
and inviting them to join me in one of the best experi-ences
I’ve had with any organization.”
Bill also brought his business acumen to bear on
the University. He has worked with the Chancellor’s
Innovation Circle and the UNC Business Accelerator
for Sustainable Entrepreneurship Advisory Board.
He serves on several boards of visitors for UNC,
including for Kenan-Flagler Business School (as chair),
the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the
Center for Heart & Vascular Care, and the Morehead
Planetarium and Science Center. He also served on
Kenan-Flagler’s Center for Entrepreneurship and
Technology Venturing External Advisory Committee.
Bill’s Carolina roots run deep. He came to UNC
after graduating from Needham B. Broughton High
School in his hometown of Raleigh, N.C. He was no
stranger to the place, as his father, the late William
Noble Starling ’51, had also been a Tar Heel. And he’d
grown up close by. But that wasn’t the deciding factor
in his decision. “Carolina has always been a great
place to get an education and to explore your interests
and discover new ones,” Bill said. “We North Carolin-ians
are fortunate to have so many great schools right
here at home, it didn’t occur to me at the time to look
elsewhere, and I sure wasn’t going to the ‘Red’ school
or the ‘Dark Blue’ school!”
He says his time at Carolina was the first leg on the
road to the rest of his life.
In 1975, Bill earned his bachelor’s degree in
business administration from what would become
Kenan-Flagler Business School, then packed his
car with all he owned and headed west to pursue an
M.B.A. at the University of Southern California’s
Marshall School of Business.
Bill credits his professors and the experience he
gained from his time at Kenan-Flagler for helping
launch him from the comfortable nest of his home
state out into the great unknown. “I don’t think I
would have ever pursued a graduate degree outside
the state, much less on the West Coast, if I hadn’t had
such good relationships with my professors as well as
the folks in the placement office here,” he said. “Cal
Atwood, the director of admissions for the business
Bill and Dana Starling
trust ing in the future
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Bill and Dana Starling
school at the time, introduced me to the folks at USC, and encouraged me to
significantly broaden the scope of my education, to look beyond the familiar
and try something new. I did.”
From USC, Bill launched a successful career as an executive/entrepreneur
in the medical device industry, particularly high technology cardiovascular
devices as well as technology devoted to other medical specialties such as
obesity and less invasive surgery technologies.
His work took him from Los Angeles, Calif., to Milwaukee, Wis., Europe,
Asia and finally to Silicon Valley. He’s now the chief executive officer of
Synecor, LLC, a privately held business accelerator with offices on both U.S.
coasts that focuses on creating highly proprietary, disruptive technologies
in the medical device and combination drug/device markets. He’s also
managing director of Synergy Life Science Partners, a venture capital firm
that focuses on investing in private, early stage medical device companies.
So Bill has come full circle so to speak.
“My time at Carolina prepared me well for whatever path I chose and gave
me the tools I needed to follow that path,” Bill said. “Dana and I hope that our
gift will help tomorrow’s UNC students do the same.” n
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Contributed
Woody and Jean Durham were honored in October
2011 in Chapel Hill for their volunteer service to UNC
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at a dinner
called “A Toast to Woody.”
The dinner raised $25,000 for the N.C. Cancer
Hospital Clinical Endowment Fund and in recognition
of these gifts, a consultation room in the Patient and
Family Resource Center will be named in their honor.
The event recognized recently retired Hall of Fame
broadcaster Woody Durham for his remarkable con-tributions
to Carolina Athletics over a distinguished
40-year career.
The event included speakers Eric Montross, for-mer
UNC basketball star and now radio analyst; Rick
Steinbacher, UNC associate athletic director; Dick
Baddour, former UNC Athletic Director; Mick Mixon,
a former colleague of Durham’s and current play-by-play
announcer for the Carolina Panthers; Phil Ford,
retired UNC and professional basketball player; UNC
Chancellor Holden Thorp; and Dr. Shelley Earp, UNC
Lineberger director.
The morning after the event, Woody Durham served
as emcee for the UNC Lineberger signature event: Fast
Break with Roy Williams, a yearly breakfast held on the
floor of the Dean E. Smith Center. Durham’s skills as
an auctioneer has helped the event to raise $1.2 million
over an eight-year period.
The toast also honored Jean Durham for her tireless
leadership of the signature UNC Lineberger event, Tick-led
Pink, for many years. She organized a committed
cadre of volunteers, leading the decorating of the event
site, and producing very successful and fun events.
The Durhams were honored in 2010 by UNC Line-berger
with the Outstanding Service Award, an annual
award given to volunteers who provide dedicated ser-vice
and outstanding leadership to UNC Lineberger. n
‘A Toast to Woody’
Durhams honored for their volunteer servi ce
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Woody and Jean Durham with UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp and his wife Patti
Brian Strickland
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